In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose – Groundbreaking Essays by a Black Woman on Feminism and Political Society - Softcover

Walker, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0063346842 ISBN 13: 9780063346840

Publisher: Amistad, 2023

Synopsis

In this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist on topics ranging from the personal to the political.

This edition includes a new Letter to the Reader by Alice Walker.

Originally published forty years ago, Alice Walker’s first collection of nonfiction is a dazzling compendium that remains both timely and relevant. In these thirty-six essays, Walker contemplates her own work and that of other writers, considers the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, and writes vividly and courageously about a scarring childhood injury. Throughout, Walker explores the theories and practices of feminism, incorporating what she calls the “womanist” tradition of black women—insights that are vital to understanding our lives and society today.

“When I graduated from college, my father gave me Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens. It was a beaten-up paperback in 1999, and it’s even more battered now.” —Jesmyn Ward

About this title

About the Author

ALICE WALKER is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1983 and the National Book Award.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amistad
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0063346842
• ISBN 13: 9780063346840
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432